For Your Viewing Pleasure: Lighting Tricks

Welcome back to another installment of For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscape.

Lighting can make or break a photoshoot. It is the lighting tricks backstage that let colors dance on the photographic film and allow the subjects to shine through. Eccentric plays such as bright backgrounds, monochromes or distilled lighting add a bit of funk to pictorials. K-pop comeback teaser images heighten anticipation using these very means. Be it Luna‘s and Chungha‘s neon palette or TVXQ‘s blurry teasers, the following pictorials exemplify the power of good lighting: